About
Ruben Quesada is a poet, translator, and editor. He edited the award-winning anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry. His writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Believer, Harvard Review, Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Santa Fe Art Institute, the City of Chicago, the Jentel Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His new poetry collection Brutal Companion won the Barrow Street Editors Prize in Poetry, and was named a finalist for the Best New Poetry Collection of 2024 by the Chicago Reader, and recognized as a Notable Book of 2024 by the University of California.